Key facts

In 2009 12,145 gigawatt hours of electricity was exported. That’s almost a quarter of all Scotland’s produced electricity

Scotland’s energy production is attributed to; 24 percent coal, 26 percent oil and gas, 30 percent nuclear, 18 percent renewables and 2 percent pumped storage

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney is the world’s first grid-connected, accredited test facility for wave and tidal devices and technologies

By 2050 the Scottish Government aims to reduce emissions by 80 percent

The devices that power Scotland’s marine energy are; Limpet (shoreline wave), Pelamis (deep-water wave), the Open Hydro Tidal Turbine (tidal stream) and the Oyster (near shore wave)

Scotland’s total practical offshore resource is estimated at 206 gigawatts

The Scottish Government aims for Scotland to generate the equivalent of 100 percent of its own electricity demand from renewable resources by 2020

The Saltire Prize is the world's largest innovation prize for technological advances in wave and tidal energy

(Source : Scottish Government)

A quarter of Europe’s tidal energy potential resources come from Scotland

By 2020 the wave and tidal energy electrical outputs for the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters are predicted to grow significantly

It is predicted that by 2020 Scotland will generate 1.6 gigawatts of wave and tidal energy